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In reply to the discussion: How you can tell if Sanders speaks to the concerns of people of color [View all]Prism
(5,815 posts)Let's bullet point it, yeah?
- If you had stopped at the statement "African Americans will best address the issue of who best represents them by voting," that would have been a true and uncontroversial statement. But you went on from there into the usual territory.
- I responded to Bigtree's respectful post with a respectful response about why I disagreed. And as an LGBTer, I have a right to disagree on the topic, as LGBT issues were also not addressed by Sander's announcement speech. He and I were in the same boat. We are both minorities whose specific issues were not covered in a speech. Bigtree had one opinion. I had another. But you betray your privilege by declaring his opinion the one you'll accept and mine as the one to discard (with quite hostile language, I might add). Do you now understand your privilege? Because you just did it again.
- I read all kinds of forums, including the AA one. Again with your privilege. Because I don't hold your opinion, I must be out of touch with PoCs. Interesting assertion from a white person. I also balance what I read there with what I hear from my real life friends. As I said, what is said in a group on DU is not a monolith opinion. And, by the way, I actually listen. You know how that's obvious? Because I keep my damn mouth shut and let PoCs make their own OPs and use their own voices and don't presume to swoop in and speak for them.
- You have buzz words and arguments you seem to apply no matter the argument at hand. Which is funny, because I don't assert class over social issues - ever. You can read my recent post history. I have said again and again and again that there can be no economic justice without social justice. So who are you addressing, exactly? Not me, because I don't hold those views. Just blargle, blarge, class, white, capitalism! It's just an ideological soup ladled on in place of a logical argument.
You're swinging at all kinds of phantoms here, largely of your own creation. You're not addressing me as an individual.
Which . . . privilege . . . .